The more you look at the whole Justin Miller scandal (more on that here, here, here, and, heck, one more: here), the more you start to wonder: Where are the calls for investigation? Where are the editorial boards of the press? Other than the fascinating reporting by City Weekly, the rest of the press (as well as the left side of […]
Archives for May 2015
Rep Justin Miller should not resign. Yet.
May 20, 2015 by
Last week, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams released a seven month old recording of Representative Justin Miller effectively admitting to stealing over $30,000. Justin Miller should not resign as a member of the Utah House of Representatives. Yet. Let me explain. I realize that this is obvious as it relates to McAdams (who is more the […]
Another Scandal: Why didn’t this come out in October? Oh, wait…
May 13, 2015 by
Utah blindsided by another political scandal File this under: “Things That Would Have Been Nice To Know Last October.” Wednesday morning, Utah woke up to another political bombshell. Accused of stealing $30,000 in campaign funds, Rep. Justin Miller, a first-term member of the Utah House, was fired from his job working for Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams. […]
Transparency in the Healthy Utah discussion
May 12, 2015 by
Whatever your position on expanding Medicaid in Utah, attacking the post-legislative session discussions as being “secretive” only makes sense if you don’t know anything about public policy formation. When Healthy Utah failed to pass out of a House committee late in the 2015 Legislative Session, Governor Gary Herbert promised to call a special session in July. It […]
Book Review: Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
May 6, 2015 by
At some point while reading Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, I started to read faster, flipping pages, and almost skimming. It must have been shortly after I realized that Ashley–the title character, but by no means the only female soldier documented in Gayle Tzemach […]
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